Channel Hopper

While her classmates were immersing themselves in a new school year earlier this month, Charlotte Samuels (FACES IN THE CROWD, Oct. 21, 2013), a junior at Ridgewood (N.J.) High, was diving into the English Channel off the coast of Dover. On Sept. 8 she became the youngest person—at 16 years, seven months and three days—to complete the Triple Crown of open-water swimming. (She navigated California's Catalina Channel in August and circled Manhattan in June.) During the 20 hours, 44 minutes and 47 seconds Charlotte was in the water, her spirits were buoyed by her boat crew, who scrawled Facebook messages from friends back home onto a whiteboard for her to see and cheered themselves hoarse when she had to sprint the last three miles to outdistance the current. "I felt like I could have kept swimming for another hour if I needed to," Charlotte said.

September 29, 2014

Derek Jeter might not be the most famous ballplayer ever, but he's certainly the most familiar. In a series of revealing interviews, the Yankees' shortstop reflects on how he survived being watched, photographed, praised and poked like no one else, and what has changed in the game (lots) and in himself (little) over two decades in the New York glare

Once the nation's top QB recruit, Gunner Kiel grew up an hour from Cincinnati, but it took him three years, four teams and a world of grief to go from his final high school game to his first college start. It was worth the wait

PERVASIVE SELF-DOUBT NEARLY KEPT ERIK SPOELSTRA FROM THE NBA. BUT HE USED THAT FEAR OF FAILURE TO FUEL HIS RISE FROM &quot;THE DUNGEON&quot; TO THE TOP OF THE COACHING FIELD. POST-LEBRON HOPE IN MIAMI STARTS WITH THE AUTHOR OF THE TEAM'S CODE